Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Cable-stayed bridge
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| Function / usage: |
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge
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| Other name(s): | Charles River Bridge |
| Completed in: | 2003 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA, North America |
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| Crosses |
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| Part of: | |
| Next to |
Charlestown Bridge
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| Replaces |
Old I-93 Charles River Bridge
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| Connects to |
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel (2003)
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Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 227.00 m | |
| length of side spans | 2 x 84 m | |
| total length | 436 m | |
| deck | deck width | 56.39 m |
| girder depth | 3.05 m | |
| number of lanes | 10 | |
| pylons | pylon height | 98.40 m |
| pylon height (above deck) | 64.00 m |
Cost
| cost of construction | ca. United States dollar 115 000 000 |
Materials
| cables |
steel
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| deck |
steel
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Chronology
| 20 December 2003 | Open to traffic in both directions of the mainline (4 lanes in each direction). |
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| 2005 | Expected completion and opening of another 2 lanes for a local cantilever ramp. |
Participants
Design
Architecture
Structural engineering
Contractor
Relevant Web Sites
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archINFORM: Leonard P. Zakim Brücke
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Boston Roads: Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge
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Bridge Pros: Charles River Bridge
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Central Artery/Tunnel Project
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PBS: Building Big - Charles River Bridge
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Wikipedia: Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge
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Yet another Big Dig web page...: Charles River Bridge
Relevant Publications
- Pont de Charles River, in "Freyssinet Magazine", March 2000, n. 207
- A landmark cable-stayed bridge over the Charles River, Boston, Massachusetts, in "Structural Concrete", December 2002, n. 4 v. 3
- Charles River Crossing: a gateway to Boston, presented at IABSE Conference, Malmö 1999 - Cable-stayed bridges. Past, present and future.
- Below Boston's New Bridge, in "Civil Engineering Magazine", December 1998, n. 12 v. 68
- Freyssinet cable-stayed structures, Freyssinet International, Vélizy-Villacoublay (France), 2004; pp. 59
- Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, Boston, Massachusetts, in "Structural Engineering International", May 2003, n. 2 v. 13
- Innovative Association of Materials in the Leonard Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, presented at fib Symposium 2004, 26-28 April 2004, Avignon.
- Conceptual Design of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, Boston, MA, USA, in "Structural Engineering International", February 2004, n. 1 v. 14
- A Signature Bridge for Boston, in "Civil Engineering Magazine", June 1997, n. 6 v. 67
- Quand l’Amérique réinvente la circulation urbaine, in "Construction moderne", 2002
- The Big Dig, Popular Science, n. 6, v. 258 (2001)
- Christiann Menn, Birkhäuser Verlag (Basel, Boston, Berlin), Basel (Switzerland), ISBN 3764357525, 1997
- 30 Bridges, Laurence King, ISBN 1856692175, 2002; pp. 122-126
- 30 Brücken, Callwey Verlag, Munich (Germany), ISBN 3766715011; pp. 122-126
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0000016 |
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| Created: | 28/10/1998 |
| Last Updated: | 21/05/2013 |